قصيدة (سقط القناع) للشاعر الفلسطيني الكبير محمود درويش – The poem (The Mask Fell) by the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish

The mask has fallen

The mask has fallen… from the mask…
The mask has fallen…
You have no brothers, my brother, no friends!
My friend, there are no fortresses!
No water with you, no medicine,
No sky, nor blood…
Neither sail nor forward nor backward…
Besiege your siege… and there is no escape!
Your arm has fallen, so pick it up!
And strike your enemy… there is no escape…
And I have fallen near you, so pick me up!
And strike your enemy with me,
For you are now:
Free
Free
And free
Your dead… or your wounded are ammunition within you!
So strike with it! Strike your enemy… there is no escape!
Our limbs are our names… our names are our limbs
Besiege your siege with madness!
And with madness!
And with madness!
Those you love have gone, they have left…
So you must either be
Or not be
The mask has fallen from the mask
The mask has fallen, and no one but you is in this open expanse for enemies and forgetfulness!
So make every barricade a country!
No… no one
The mask has fallen…
Arabs who obeyed their Romans…
Arabs who sold their souls…
Arabs… and they have been lost.